Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Testing toward CM9 RC1 for Samsung Epic 4G

noobnl got the crespo4g modem (from the Nexus S 4G) to mostly work on Epic 4G, allowing CM9 to Update PRL and Profile natively for the first time! Currently it has stability problems that noobnl is attempting to fix. This is very experimental and unstable so no test builds are available yet.

If public testing of the crespo4g modem on Epic 4G does commence, it will initially be for advanced users only. Flashing the crespo4g modem means you cannot use any other ROM on your phone. Even temporary stock from sdcard will no longer work. Users will need to know how to manually flash the crespo4g or Epic 4G modem with Odin or Heimdall in order to safely test the upcoming test CM9 builds.

45 comments:

Tried to flash the rom and once I hit reboot from clockworkmod, the phone attempted to boot. The screen showed the galaxy s / cyanogenmod logo then the screen cut off completely while the capacitive backlights stayed on for the duration until I pulled the battery.

The only thing i don't like is when i take a panoramic photograph. When I go to the gallery, all the Panoramics are at the end, instead of with the others (sorted by when taken) (this is not directly related to this beta, it's been like this for the past couple of builds). Probably due to the renaming of the photos to have IMG/PANO at front.

Since flashing this I have not run into the issues I had with Beta 4. I was having some reboots while using GPS in Maps, times where leaving Maps would not make the active GPS icon disappear, & poor signal where it wasn't poor prior to Beta 4. This update has crushed all those bugs for me as far as I can tell

Due to the new libsensor, you might try going to Settings -> Display -> Automatic Brightness and check "Allow light decrease" to get the function that you're used to from the old sensor. This seems to operate more similarly to other devices using the opensource sensor code.

I have battery charge trouble since I updated to beta-4. I am using the same apps and approx the same time frame, but the battery life is half of what it was. Need to use my phone and do not have a charger while am walking around, any help would be great. If I need to change the kernal to help I will. Just installed the beta-5 pre-1. Will give that a shot tomorrow and see what happens.Like the updates keeps me courious, like the fact you want to keep improving the whole CM9 experience. Other people make ROM's then are finished. Keep up the great work!!!

So far i love it just a few issues...-Auto light sensor doesn't seem to work properly. -The Video Camcorder does not work with the LED(nor the panorama view)--light should come on for those functions if selected .....-Battery seems to drain a little faster then b4 but livable.(half-3/4 a day with little to no use. Sits next to a sprint airave)**Home screen: you should be able to remove the screens that you want(1 from each end). If you change it to 3 you then have to make 2 the main page and then you have to rearrange all the desktops sense it doesn't auto shiftTrebuchet?? assuming the launcher has locked up/Forcequit but doesn't auto restart...had to reboot phone.-Love the new browser options much easier to navigate everything and add new tabs!!**The forceclose as the back button is nice...might want to put safe guard for the main functions of the phone(if it doesn't already)*Thanks for getting the front notification led working!

Amazing everything save for the wifi tethering. Doesn't seem to work. I had the same problem on all the builds before but on the last one, beta3, I did something (although I can't remember what) and it got it working. Any ideas?

i just installed cyanogenmod for the first time, so i'm not sure if this is a bug in the release, but when using chrome the software keyboard doesn't work, only the hardware keyboard does. tried to install another keyboard from the play store, but it didn't fix the issue. any sugestion?

Anyone having the issues where you cant turn on the bluetooth from the dropdown menu and have to go to the settings to get it turned on??The icon half lit up but never really turned on....sense forcing it on it has been happy tho *Shrug*

Having issues with stock message. Will close out of message screen when replying, and touch screen keyboard will stop working. Have to exit to home once more to get back to normal. (Fresh install B5 pre1)

Also having issues with sending MMS. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Thinking it could possibly be a network issue cause my Sprint signal at times can be spotty. Also, when updating CM9 do I need to reinstall gapps in CWM5 as well? Wasn't sure since it states we don't have to wipe in between updates. Kinda of a newb, but I feel like I've figured it out for the most part. Thanks again!

Are nightlies automated now? If not, are 0617 and 0618 stable? Thanks for all the work, guys! I'm still on Beta 4, but had something really strange yesterday. After taking a picture with stock camera app, I locked the phone and put it in my pocket. Within less than 30mins, the battery dropped from 70% to 19%, and shut down. After that, after charging some,I rebooted, then I lost the key click and lock screen sounds. I've tried just clearing cache, then I tried reflashing B4. I will try to flash a different rom then come back to see if it fixes it.

So with the crespro4g modem working(ish) on epicmtd, will we be able to use crespro EK02 or FE10 basband versions? I don't know if that would even help with anything at all, but I'm sure its good for development. Running nightly 6/19 stress free 4.0 on 2 sph-d700. Thank you for doing what you do!!!

WHOA... whatever happened with the latest nightly (6/21) but things are very nice. Quadrant went from 1350 to 1495. And my ping on my wifi and 3g is lowest i've ever seen, ~60ms and 160ms respectively. using FC19. Normally im around 115ms for wifi and 200ms for 3g.

Read this post, then tried 6/21. Totally agree that this is really good! My quadrant is 1521 and phone is very responsive!! Battery is pretty good too. Getting a full day out of an Anker 1800mAh battery. Good job!

Running 624 build, first nightly I've had any issues with. Received a text during a phone call and phone started vibrating every 2 seconds and would not stop til I hung up. Moving on to 625 Thanks for all your efforts!